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  † 1.  (See quot.) Obs.–1

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1662.  Stanley, Hist. Chaldaick Philos., viii. 24. The unzoned Gods are Sarapis and Bacchus;… they are called unzoned, for that they use their power freely … in the Zones, and are enthroned above the conspicuous Deities.

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  2.  Not girt with a zone, belt, or girdle; uncinctured.

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1718.  Prior, Solomon, II. 167. Full, tho’ unzon’d, her Bosom rose.

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1799.  Corry, Sat. London (1803), 58. The Circassian slave, the unzoned waist, the pendent workbag.

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1804.  Anna Seward, Lett. (1811), VI. 142. Other bands of lovers … of sultry regions are shewn fanning the unzoned beauty.

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1854.  Syd. Dobell, Balder, iii. 11. One all unzoned in her deep haunts … Hastes not to hide her breast.

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